V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College Oxford and began to write in London in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas The Mimic Men Guerrillas A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction equally acclaimed include Among the Believers Beyond Belief The Masque of Africa and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990 V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993 he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire and died in 2018. . Language: English